If you sell chocolate chip cookies and the majority of the people buy your cookies, does that make you a monopoly?
If Ford designs a new car should they be forced to make companies like Chevy be able to use Chevy parts on the Ford car? Anyone can make cookies, cars, computers and mobile devices if they have the desire and money. Apple does not prevent you or others from making software or computers. My personal thought about the 30% fee Apple charges to sell your software is that it’s a really good deal. Apple list your product allowing many millions of people to see and buy it. They handle all the global sales and taxes plus provide a way to download it. If your software is making a lot of money part of the money you are paying Apple would have been added in taxes due to you making more profit. If you have an app that many schools or other types of business want to buy Apple can make that deal better than most small developers. To me that seems cheap compared to the increased sales that Apple can make with large companies. But each developer has their own reasons for using Apple or not. JB > On Aug 10, 2020, at 2:45 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I forgot we had a lawyer in our midst. So is Apple a monopoly in the legal > sense? > > >> On 8/10/20 3:45 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: >> Jerry jesticulated, >>> Are you sure? The W12 used in some Bentleys is made by VW, and many years >>> of Phantoms used a V12 of the proper displacement. Of course they don’t >>> talk about mundane stuff like that! <grin> >> But VW now makes “Bentley", while “Rolls” is now a BMW brand. >> In either case, you don’t get the real thing, and the Rolls Royce 8 cylinder >> engine is now a bit of history . . . >> (And for another odd quirk, Rolls once licensed the GM Turbo 400 >> transmission for use n both, but made “improvements” in it. That worked "so >> well” that within a couple of years they instead just bought them from GM . >> . .) > > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
